Slavoj Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

The Real Life Social Network -Paul Adams

This presentation offers a great view of your "friends" on social networks

The Real Life Social Network v2

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where good ideas come from - Steven Johnson - RSA Animate

A time-lapse animation of a talk by Steven Johnson great technique - 4 minute video by the author.

Make your public speeches Resonate -by Nancy Duarte

I had the great pleasure to attend the launch part for Nancy Duarte's new book Resonate - and not only enjoyed a superbly catered affair, but met a lot of interesting folks in the graphic design, speech coaching and information architecture arena. Best of all was Nancy's heart-felt and powerful dedication of the book to her Dad - and the compelling story of its creation. Nancy signed my book and I will soon be learning from it. Here's a blurb from Nick Morgan at Forbes:

Nancy Duarte’s New Book: “resonate” - Nick Morgan - Public Speaking and Communications Commentary - Forbes:

And as an extra benefit for reading this post, here is an example of Nancy's presentation style, proving that you don't have to bore your audience with PowerPoint ( the presentation was crafted using only the PPT tool)

5 Ways to Make PowerPoint Sing! (And Dance!) | Duarte Blog'

The Network Singularity: Social Media Excellence - Today's Five C’s

The Network Singularity: Social Media Excellence - Today's Five C’s

Here are 2 separate posts from the blog Network Singularity. Taken together they articulate the concepts and practices of creating and sharing social media in a succinct and useful way.

The Network Singularity: Social Media Excellence – Today’s Five C’s (2)

Did You Know?

a 4 minute video by XPlane - worth the viewing time IMO.

Envisioning Guinea Pig “B” - Scale Independent Thought

Envisioning Guinea Pig “B” - Scale Independent Thought

Digital Embassies - from the mind of David Armano

Community Engagement: Managing Communities Across Digital Embassies

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David Armano's contributions to the SlideShare archive are presentation gems. I embedded this one in preparation for a lunch with Chris Carfi one of Armano's Edelman Digital colleagues.

How Doctors Can Use the iPad | MyDocHub Blog - Online Health Community

How Doctors Can Use the iPad | MyDocHub Blog - Online Health Community

FlipBoard for the iPad

the future of the book - IDEO

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

gtd video of david allen at google

Pretty F**King amazing!-

There are two versions of Marta Kagan's presentation on Social Media posted on Slideshare - The one above garnered 1605 views.

The once below had the word "F**King inserted throughout and garnered 43,000 viewers - Must say something about Slideshare viewers or maybe about the general viewing public.

The presentation is worth viewing in either version, but I will join the F**King crowd and embed the F**King version for your viewing pleasure.

What the F**k is Social Media NOW?

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The National Mood map on Twitter

Feeling Moody? How the time of the day,the day of the week and your geolocation affects your mood/

Researchers analyzed over 300 million tweets collected between September 2006 and August 2009 to determine the mood of America over a 24-hour, 7-day period, and by geolocation. The mood of each tweet was inferred via Affective Norms for English Words, a word-rating system that gives normative emotional ratings for English language words.

The video below shows the shifting mood, or pulse, over time: Twitter Mood: The Pulse of the Nation - Tech Talk - CBS News Posted by Dan Farber.

when ideas have sex - Matt Ridely on TED Global

At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.



Here's Matt's Website Videos | The Rational Optimist…:

The History of Information in 6 minutes- a short video by PULL Author David Siegel

David is the author of a new book PULL Amazon.com: pull: Books .

This video is from his website and worth a look.

The History of Information, by David Siegel from dsiegel on Vimeo.

Churchill Club - Brown and Hagel

Here is an animated "capture" created by Bill Daul of the Churchill Club event I posted about here: Thoughts Illustrated: Tim O'Reilly - The Oracle of Silicon Valley

Take 5 minutes to watch Bill's clever animation of the pictures he took of the event. Now all we need is some key audio clips from the interview to accompany the aninmation. Thanks for the link, Bill.

Churchill Club - Brown and Hagel

The devouring dragon of Facebook and Twitter

This image from illustrator Jess3 captures my feelings about Facebook and Twitter -- not only for Facebook's evolving invasion of our privacy as shown in my last post, but for the loss of time and money and persona that these two social media demons devour.

You can fimd more of Jess3 images on Slideshare JESS3 Presentations

Nice imagination, Jess!

The evolution of PRIVACY on Facebook

To get the "gist" of this infographic from Matt Mckeon's website, you need to click on the link below and chose "image based version" on the topleft corner of the image, and then click on each of the dates to the upper right of the image to get the impact of the changes that FaceBook has made over the last 5 years of its existence. Matt is a developer on the staff of the Visual Communication Lab at IBM

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

See my HaraKiri post for more context Thoughts Illustrated: Is it time to leave facebook?

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• Visual Guide To Facebook's Privacy Changes Over Time (PICTURES) (huffingtonpost.com)

The GeoDome - Deja Vu all over again

I just received this invitation to an Interaction Associates webcast next week:
On the webcast the CEO of GeoDome will discuss the utility of immersive environments and powerful visualizations to shake up the thinking of C-level executives.

Here's their pitch from their website:
"The GeoDomeTM Portal is a rapidly deployable (read portable sets up in 30 minutes in any room) and highly engaging Immersive Virtual Environment designed to casually immerse up to 15 people. It leverages the latest visual computing technologies to enable participants to experientially and interactively explore a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary subjects across multiple scales of space and time. "

This reminds me of my visit in the early 1980's to the exploratorium project in the Stanford Engineering School of Design.

The exploratorium was a half-dome geodesic with a floor to accommodate about 12 participants where we lay head-to -head in a hub and spoke arrangement to view a presentation of Powers of Ten projected on the half-dome ceiling.

The objective of the exploratorium was to shift our normal way of thinking to our right brains in preparationn for a succeeding collaborative exercise. It worked very well - 30 years ago, and now, as with many early visionary concepts, has finally reached the mainstream of an Enterprise-level learning consultancy webcast.

I know this stuff works - but am amazed that it took 30 years to find adoption.

I intend to learn more about the GeoDome and its global network and perhaps providing the visual content such a space needs to function at its best. A great potential for sharing complex information rapidly - and getting it through to our right brains.